Big Reboot - E-Learning from Google

Big Reboot - E-Learning from Google

E-Learning for Google

Google digitises many books from library collections. If an Old English edition, translation, or study is out of print or hard to locate.

Google has partnered with publishers to digitize back issues of thousands of popular magazines and make them searchable through their Book Search engine.

2. Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the Web faster, safer, and easier.

Use one box for everything - type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and Web pages.

Thumbnails of your top sites let you access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Desktop shortcuts allow you to launch your favorite Web apps straight from your desktop.

Note: The Download Google Chrome link will take you to the Google Chrome website, where you must accept the end-user license agreement before downloading.

Also, the downloadable file is only a stub installer.

You must remain connected to the Internet during installation to complete the full download of Google Chrome.

Tags: E-Learning from Google, Web Browsers

3. Google Code

Google Code is Google's official developer site. Featuring APIs, developer tools and technical resources.

4. Google Earth

Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places and share with others.

5. Google Font Directory

The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API.

All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and are served by Google servers.

6. Google Gears

Google Gears is a Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer extension that allows to navigate on compatible websites offline and synchronize when going back online.

It is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser:

- Let web applications interact naturally with your desktop
- Store data locally in a fully-searchable database
- Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance

7. Google Knol

Google Knol makes it free and easy to create, collaborate on, and publish credible web content. Put your name behind your content; write a knol.

Tags: E-Learning from Google, Wikis

8. Google Labs

Google Labs showcases ideas that aren't quite ready for prime time. Your feedback can help Google improve them. Please play with these prototypes and send your comments directly to the Googlers who developed them.

9. Google Maps

Google Maps allows you to find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions.

10. Google News Timeline

11. Google Orkut

Google Orkut allows you to connect with friends and family using scraps and instant messaging.

Google Orkut allows you to connect with friends and family using scraps and instant messaging.

Tags: E-Learning from Google, Social Networking

12. Google Picasa

Google Picasa is a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It's free, and easy to use.

Google Picasa is a software download from Google that helps you organize, edit, and share your photos. It's free, and easy to use.

13. Google Reader

Have trouble keeping up with the sites you visit?

Read them in one place with Google Reader, where keeping up with your favorite websites is as easy as checking your email.

14. Google Scholar

Google Scholor provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

From one place, users can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from... academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organisations.

Google Scholar helps users identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Features of Google Scholar

* Search diverse sources from one convenient place
* Find papers, abstracts and citations
* Locate the complete paper through your library or on the web
* Learn about key papers in any area of research

How are articles ranked?

In their words...

"Google Scholar aims to sort articles the way researchers do, weighing the full text of each article, the author, the publication in which the article appears, and how often the piece has been cited in other scholarly literature. The most relevant results will always appear on the first page."

Unlike Google News or Froogle, Google Scholar has not yet been promoted to the Google home page, so searchers have to know enough to click on "more".

15. Google Sites

Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages.

Building a site with Google Sites is as simple as editing a document and you don't need anyone's help to get started.

16. Google SketchUp

Google SketchUp is a free, easy-to-learn 3D modeling software with a few simple tools to let you create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, and even space ships.

You can add details, textures, and glass to your models, and design with dimensional accuracy.

You can place your finished models using real-world coordinates in Google Earth, share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.

Google SketchUp is a great way to discover if 3D modeling is right for you.

Google SketchUp is free for personal use. No registration is required.

Google SketchUp Version 6 added the ability to create a 3D model from ap photo and "Sketchy Effects," among other new features.

17. Google Talk

18. Google Translate

Google Translate is a free online language translation service instantly translates text and web pages.

This translator supports: English, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic,Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Yiddish.

19. Google Video

Search and watch millions of videos from across the web with Google Videos. Includes forum and personalized recommendations.

20. Google Voice

21. Google YouTube

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22. Google 3D Warehouse